Joe Biden has arrived in Kyiv for a surprise visit with Volodymyr Zelensky, as air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital.

The US President was spotted walking with Zelensky at St. Michael's Cathedral, after his huge motorcade was filmed making its way through the streets.

Biden delivered remarks and met Zelensky at Mariinsky Palace on Monday to announce an additional £500 million dollars (£416 million) in US assistance and to reassure Ukraine of American and allied support as the conflict continues.

“One year later, Kyiv stands. And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands," Biden said.The visit marks the second time the two leaders have met since the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, after Zelensky travelled to Washington in December.

It also comes at a tense moment in the war, as Ukraine pushes its western allies for fighter jets and amid warnings from the US that China could begin arming Russia.

There are fears Putin could step up his attacks on the year anniversary, and Biden's visit was an example as air raid sirens indicated Russian weapons were being used close by.

At the time of the invasion, Putin is said to have estimated it would take just a matter of days for Kyiv to fall and Ukraine to be under his power, but almost a year his forces are said to be suffering severe losses.
However, the United States and its Nato allies and partners are more concerned about Kyiv’s needs for large amounts of ammunition as the war with Russia is set to enter its second year.

Zelensky is pushing hard for combat planes and last week visited London, Paris and Brussels on just his second foreign trip since Russia invaded.

Biden’s mission with his visit to Kyiv — and then Warsaw — is to underscore that the United States is prepared to stick with Ukraine “as long as it takes” to repel Russian forces even as public opinion polling suggests that US and allied support for providing weaponry and direct economic assistance has started to soften.
For Zelensky, the symbolism of having the US President stand side by side with him on Ukrainian land as the anniversary nears is no small thing as he prods the US and European allies to provide more advanced weaponry and to step up the pace of delivery.

The visit also gives Mr Biden an opportunity to get a firsthand look at the devastation the Russian invasion has caused on Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainian troops and civilians have been killed, millions of refugees have fled the war and Ukraine has suffered tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure damage.

Though western surface-to-air missile systems have bolstered Ukraine’s defensives, the visit marked the rare occasion where a US president has travelled to a conflict zone where the US or its allies did not have control over the airspace.

It was not immediately clear whether the US had given advance notice of the trip to Moscow to avoid any miscalculation that could bring the two nuclear-armed nations into direct conflict.
The US military does not have a presence in Ukraine other than a small detachment of marines guarding the embassy in Kyiv, making Biden’s visit more complicated than other recent visits by prior US leaders to war zones.

Speculation has been building for weeks that Biden would pay a visit to Ukraine around the anniversary of the Russian invasion.

But the White House repeatedly said no presidential trip to Ukraine was planned – even after the Poland visit was announced earlier this month.

At the White House, planning for Mr Biden’s visit to Kyiv was kept quiet — with a relatively small group of aides briefed on the plans — because of security concerns.

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